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11 This star was called “Wormwood,” and a third of the waters turned to wormwood.[a] Great numbers of people died from the waters that had become bitter.

12 When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars. As a result, a third of their light was darkened, and the day lost its illumination for a third of the time, and so did the night.[b]

13 The Cry of the Eagle.[c] In my vision, I heard an eagle cry out in a loud voice as it flew high overhead, “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the other trumpet blasts that the three angels have not yet blown!”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood: a bitter-tasting plant that is a metaphor for calamity, sorrow, and death (see Prov 5:3f; Jer 9:15; Lam 3:19).
  2. Revelation 8:12 See the darkness that occurred for three days during the ninth plague of Egypt (Ex 10:21-23).
  3. Revelation 8:13 After the universe, the human race will itself be struck. The eagle announces the three calamities.